《Smile-Cracking Pomegranate》 - Emily Pomegranate

...In this respect, it is not surprising that he was friends with the symbolist poet Mallarmé. Aubanell, known as the "greatest lyric poet of the south of France," has works such as "The Pomegranate That Broke" (1860), "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1885), and "The Setting Sun" (1899), which are elegant love poems reminiscent of Romantic and snobbish poets, and verse plays such as "The Bread of Sin" (1882), "The Shepherd" (1935), and "The Kidnapping" (1948), which depict the fate of a person who becomes enslaved by intense lust. These works reveal the brightness and passion common to the southern French, who were raised in the climate of the Mediterranean coast and had a strong Latin bloodline. ...

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…この点，彼が象徴詩人マラルメと親交のあったこともうなずける。　〈南仏最大の抒情詩人〉といわれるオーバネルの作品には，抒情詩に，ロマン派や高踏派の詩人を思わせる典雅な恋愛詩集《笑み割るるざくろ》(1860)，《アビニョンの娘たち》(1885)，《沈める太陽》(1899)，韻文の戯曲に，はげしい情欲のとりこになった人間の運命を描いた《罪のパン》(1882)，《牧人》(1935)，《誘拐》(1948)などがある。これらの作品には，地中海沿岸の風土にはぐくまれ，ラテン人の濃い血を受けた南仏人に共通する明るさと情熱とがうかがいうる。…

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